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| Personal background |
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Hi, I'm a student from South-East London, England.
I'm really interested in computers and physics. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe that extraterrestrial life exists because the universe is a big place and it is probable that there will be some form of life somewhere else.
As for intelligent life [ that emmits radio waves [ strong enough to reach us [ in the spectrum that SETI are searching ] ] ] - well, maybe, hopefully - but perhaps not, or at least not for a long time.
I am confident that we will discover extraterrestrial life before it reaches us. That is, I don't believe that aliens have visited, or will visit, the Earth.
If we are running SETI, then our extraterrestrial friends are probably running STI. If we expect to receive a signal from them, then we should sent a signal to them - perhaps the first 100 digits of pi in binary? (since this is a universal constant)
I run SETI@home:
To keep my computer busy,
Because I have broadband (so I don't have to dial up every time I need to download new data) - although, of course, a fast/constant internet connection is not at all necessary,
To help SETI clear the backlog of data,
So that I can say I'm taking part in the world's largest shared computation project,
Because it would be interesting if we found extraterrestrial life.
I hope that SETI continues to be funded by the US government and that it will be supported by more users.
Although this could be considered unsolicited mail, has SETI considered writing to large companies / schools / universities (by normal mail) asking them to join SETI@home? This may attract many new users as I expect a lot of people who would be prepared to run SETI@home do not because they:
Have not heard of it
Think that you have to pay to run it
Think that they need a supercomputer to run it
Think that you have high a speed, continuous internet connection
The more support (in the form of CPU time) that can be found, the more chance there is of finding extraterrestrial intelligence.
James Griffiths |
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